Jun 29th, 2009 by jimbyrd
I am perplexed over the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Redding v. Safford United School District. The court ruled that the 4th Amendment rights of one Savana Redding were violated by the school’s performing a strip search of Savana for prescription drugs. I am perplexed on two levels: First, the ruling in favor of Savana Redding, and second, the strip search by the school.
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Jun 24th, 2009 by jimbyrd
I think there was one serious mistake made by the Reagan administration, and that was the idea that you could deal and temporize with and negotiate successfully with terrorists who were running Iran. And that was a mistake, as President Reagan was courageous enough to admit and agree to later on. He was misled by some very wrong advice and it had very terrible consequences in the [Beirut] Airport. —Caspar Weinberger
Two of the most ludicrous and perplexing statements regarding the Iranian elections came, poignantly, from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, they occupy the top two positions within the hierarchy of American foreign policy.
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Jun 18th, 2009 by jimbyrd
If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle—Sun Tzu
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Jun 11th, 2009 by jimbyrd
Barack Obama is a certified zero, if not in the idiomatic sense, most definitely mathematically.
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On October 20, 2008, Colin Powell, just prior to the November election, made the following statement on Meet the Press : “I think he is a transformation figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I’ll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama.”
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May 15th, 2009 by jimbyrd
The Supreme Court is the omnipresent arbitrator of the U.S. Constitution regarding the law. The justices are appointed for life, and for any case argued before them, their word is the last word. However, the current paramountcy and structure of the court was not the original blueprint of the Supreme Court created in the founders of the Constitution.
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One day shy of the 100-day anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama, Republican Senator Arlen Specter realigned, again, his allegiance with the Democratic Party, and declared that he would run as a Democrat in the 2010 election. This surprise announcement came 41 days after Specter emphatically stated, “To eliminate any doubt, I am a Republican, and I am running for reelection in 2010 as a Republican on the Republican ticket.”His apostasy caused surprise, dismay, and confusion within the ranks of his longtime supporters. He gave a politician’s promise, after all. Specter had a one-on-one meeting with Obama shortly before the votes were cast in the Senate regarding the $787 billion stimulus package, for which the Democrats needed three Republican defectors to pass. It would be amazingly naive to believe that Specter did not commit to switching parties either during that meeting or shortly thereafter. Amalgamate the possible promise of support from Obama and Harry Reid to bolster and give sustainability to his rapidly deteriorating political career, the ever-increasing probability of his being eliminated in the 2010 Republican primaries, and a historical penchant for jumping ship from sinking political parties, and you have described the quintessential character of Arlen Specter.
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Apr 30th, 2009 by jimbyrd
Some of life’s more imponderable marvels are: Is the Loch Ness Monster real? Where is the Ark of the Covenant? Where is the Holy Grail? Where is the location of Atlantis? And the most imponderable of all: Why is Diane Feinstein not incarcerated?
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Apr 29th, 2009 by jimbyrd
Washington–White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, released an official statement from Barack Obama apologizing to anyone who may or may not have been under the perception of being upset by Air Force One, with an F-16 in pursuit, buzzing ground zero in New York, various buildings along the Hudson, rattling office windows in a no fly zone where the last time a jet graced these skies, it slammed into the World Trade Center towers, across the Verrazano Bridge, then for good measure, buzzed the Statue of Liberty’s head, all the while terrorizing anyone in sight.
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